Jane Goodall (1934 - )

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960.] She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace. source: Wikipedia

Known for
Study of chimpanzee social and family life

conservation

animal welfare

Louis Leakey arranged funding and in 1962, he sent Goodall, who had no degree, to Cambridge, where whe obtained a PhD degree in ethology. She was the eighth person to be allowed to study for a PhD there without first having obtained a BA or BSc.

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Wikipedia

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (1986)

Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the later years (edited by Dale Peterson) (2001)

More than 40 films, most recently (2017) Jane, biographical documentary directed and written by Brett Morgen, music by Philip Glass